Sentence examples for widespread attendance from inspiring English sources

A similar, Greek-only food drive last year was met with applause and widespread attendance.

Nervous, resigned and sometimes enthusiastic, thousands of New York City students began summer school yesterday in an opening that officials said went smoothly even though it was marred by widespread attendance problems.

With widespread attendance problems marring a summer school program heralded as the biggest in New York City history, school officials responded over the last few days with an all-out blitz, using attendance officers and guidance counselors to go door to door and work the phones to reach the parents of the tens of thousands of children who failed to show up for classes last week.

To combat widespread absenteeism, attendance teachers made 30,360 calls to truants between July 5 and July 12, Mr. Levy said.

Except for prestigious schools like the Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High, the city's nearly 200 public high schools have long been seen as troubled, with many plagued by weak academic programs, widespread discipline problems, poor attendance and high dropout rates.

Conversations at FOBGAPT were earnest, open, and diverse, and the meeting's capacity attendance indicates widespread interest in reform.

The commission's report, released in December, alleged "widespread, systemic abuse" in attendance-keeping but was attacked as flimsy by school officials because it did not specify any schools where such abuse had occurred.

The authorities had been trying to discourage attendance, saying that widespread protests could prove as destabilizing as the Soviet collapse, which occurred 20 years ago this month.

"There is no evidence at this time that anyone at ODE is involved in the attendance report rigging, but the apparently widespread nature of the practice begs the question of at least a lack of oversight".

The competition venues were spread between seven villages (most in the mountainous Piedmont region to the west) and Turin, and beforehand there was some concern that the widespread Games would suffer from logistics problems and low attendance.

For example, attendance at a nearby massage parlour is apparently widespread.